Health Education - PgCert

The PGCert Health Education embraces the dynamic nature of healthcare and education, recognising the evolving needs of both students and healthcare staff.

The course has been designed to meet the needs of healthcare practitioner educators to help develop your knowledge, skills, and values through exploring the key theories of learning, facilitation, assessment, and evaluation to enhance the experience of your learners in an increasingly digital age.

Live webinars and podcasts from leading experts in the field, individual coaching, engaging interactive learning and closed discussion group will ensure maximum engagement and give you an opportunity to explore the learner journey in detail. Teaching and learning activities will also encourage independent research and exploration of the subject in order to enhance your skills as an educator.

The course will enhance your skills in:

• Inter-professional working, networking, and learning
• Delivering education in a digital age
• Written and verbal communication

As well as giving you an insight into the essential skills for postgraduate-level study, including digital learning, IT skills, literature searching, assignment planning, academic writing, critical reading, and group working.

The course is unique in its focus on supporting non-medical and medical clinical educators to exploit and facilitate every teaching opportunity to its fullest potential. It will provide a real time focus on the generational span and the increased requirements to support increased wellness, emotional labour, and inclusion. A further distinctive feature is the interprofessional and interdisciplinary nature of the course which draws on expertise from a range of clinical professions and diverse teaching experience in clinical and non-clinical workplaces.

Our Facilities

Our Nursing and Midwifery courses are based at our City South campus in leafy Edgbaston.

We’ve spent £41million expanding our facilities at City South. These facilities offer hands-on practical experience, replicating the spaces you will come across in professional practice.

In a sector where new techniques are constantly being discovered, we work hard to ensure that you learn using the most up-to-date equipment available. Alongside physical spaces such as a mock operating theatre and wards, we also make use of online and virtual technology, such as our virtual ward and virtual case creator.

See more of our skills facilities at City South

Centre for Skills and Simulation

The Centre for Skills and Simulation offers a range of different spaces which replicate situations that you will encounter in practice. These include hospital wards, an operating theatre and a home environment room.

Our mock wards enable you to get a feel of what a ward is really like before you head out for your first placement. The hospital wards can be adapted from low care to high dependency care environment with the necessary monitoring equipment.

The home environment room is the perfect space for teaching communications skills and allows us to simulate a community setting for our students. It is particularly useful for mental health nurses, learning disability nurses and midwives.

Simulation Manikins

We have several Simulation men (SIM men) and simulation babies (SIM babies) which are anatomically correct manikins used for teaching specific techniques such as advanced adult and paediatric life support skills, acute and high dependency clinical skills, first aid and communication skills. The manikins contain software which replicates real symptoms, and can manipulate indicators such as blood pressure, pulse and heart rate for extra realism. SIM man can even ‘talk’ to the students as they are treating him, to add another dimension to learning.

Computer Facilities

The Seacole building has two open-access IT Suites which offer PCs, printers, photocopiers and scanners. There is also an IT Helpdesk for quick and easy help with your computing or internet issues.

Our PCs utilise the latest Intel i5 core technology, all with:

• Fast (unrestricted) internet connectivity
• Ability to save files to USB, DVD & CD
• Microsoft Office software
• Research and statistical software
• Storage space which can be accessed from any PC across the University and from home

Our PCs are also designed to support students who may have difficulties with reading and writing, featuring specialised software with zooming/magnification and screen reading capabilities, which may also be customised for individual student needs.

In addition to desktop PCs, we also offer a laptop loan facility, allowing students to borrow a laptop for up to six hours while on campus.